No, it sucks to have to cover treatments that nobody in your church is at risk of.

Insurance doesn't cover medications; they cover treatments - that is, medications for a specific purpose. It's fairly trivial to exclude the pill for contraceptive purposes, but include it for treatment of acne, or menstrual period stabilisation.

Removing contraception from your coverage has no effect at all on other people whose coverage does/should contain contraception.

The problem is the government mandated a one-size-fits-all solution, when one size doesn't damn well fit all.

No, you didn't. I have no idea what political ideology he followed, but if he was suggesting compulsory governmental welfare, it clearly wasn't libertarianism.

For their public, unpaid repositories, their ToS state that they can take them down at their discretion, at any time. If you want some accountability, pay for a repository - then I'd expect a reason.

I'd have probably done the same thing in their place - they want GitHub to be a place for collaboration for software development, not the next ytmnd.com

They didn't actually downgrade anything - headline is, as per usual, flamebait. They're using the same technology, they just expect to (surprise, surprise) go over-budget and behind schedule. The previous governments NBN's roll-out was also over-budget and behind schedule, so it's really nothing to do with the technology chosen - it's the tendency of politicians from both parties to over-promise and under-deliver.

The same could be said about the car industry in its first five years.

The internet may have been around much longer, but data-centric cloud storage providers are a very young industry.

He was planning on using RAID 5, but turns out the write-times on those tablets are a bitch.

Golden Eagles and Bald Eagles are both rated "Least Concern" in terms of endangered species. They're not "rare birds".

So, no carbs, no protein, no fat - you haven't seriously tried losing weight unless you subsist on nothing but fruit and vegetables? Good luck staying healthy with that sort of diet.

Uh-huh. And if you haven't tried living off bananas, limited fasting, acai berries, or whatever the next fad diet to come along is, you haven't seriously tried losing weight either.

There is no "proper" way to set up a website such that it can withstand an arbitrarily large DDOS attack. All you can do is throw more money at it until you have more capacity than the DDOSer does.

The expectations and limitations might be cultural, but technology shapes culture, just as much as the inverse.

Take tasers; yes, I'd much rather be shot with a taser than with a gun. The issue, of course, is that tasers are used in situations where people wouldn't resort to a gun, because they're promoted as "safer".

It's the same issue as this; I'm against allowing the state to use these devices because, while I'm not particularly afraid they will shoot my engine block out, I'm not so certain they won't use these ostensibly "safe" devices much more recklessly, due to their perceived innocuity.

No, but you HAVE had the expectation that someone can't point a device at your property and cause it to fry itself. Just like you had the expectation that someone wouldn't shoot your horse, pre-auto.

Driving a car on a public road doesn't somehow mean all your rights are nullified.

You have trouble with rational debate, don't you?

Yeah! The government should have the right to do whatever the hell it wants to you on public property. Get shot by a cop walking down the sidewalk? Should have been walking on your own fucking sidewalk. You were asking for it, bitch.

Not really; gift cards are considered to be debts to be honoured, not a currency. This was pointedly demonstrated to Australians who had Borders gift cards when they went into receivership down here. As part of their insolvency, they declared that their gift cards would only be worth half the face price.